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‘Money Mules’: The Hidden Side of Phishing
The dramatic rise in phishing and identity theft attacks includes a well-organized offline component—the not-so-innocent “money mule” recruited by…
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Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost?
It’s dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software’s Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites…
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Firefox Zero-Day Code Execution Hoax?
A public claim by hackers that Mozilla’s Firefox browser is vulnerable to multiple code execution vulnerabilities may be an…
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DHS Names Cyber-Security Chief
The Department of Homeland Security has picked a new cyber-security czar. After a yearlong search, the federal government named…
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Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox, Thunderbird Flaws
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer isn’t the only Web browser with serious security issues. Mozilla on Sept. 15 shipped a “highly…
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Eavesdropping on Bots Preparing to Attack
When Joe Stewart spotted a variant of the Mocbot Trojan hijacking unpatched Windows machines for use in IRC-controlled botnets,…